This page contains a list of interesting actual cases of privacy threats that have hit the news (original source included). Don’t hesitate to contact us via e-mail if you have noticed similar cases. The CAPrice website is not responsible for the content of external websites.
Android phones ‘betray’ user location to Google A majority of Android smartphones collect location data and send it back to Google, even when location services are switched off. News website Quartz reported Android phones gathered information about nearby mobile phone masts and shared those details with Google. One privacy advocate described the finding as a […]
Read an actual case of privacy leak regarding to the DogVacay: DogVacay is a website where people who love dogs can offer dog sitting services. I know because I love dogs but can’t have one right now because of travel and career commitments. So sometimes I host dogs for friends or through DogVacay. I love all the […]
Although many people claim that smart meters invade their privacy, it is unclear as to whether a compelling argument has yet been fully made that properly articulates an invasion of privacy assertion in a way that is understandable or convincing enough to persuade a sufficient number of legislators, governmental officials, court judges, or hearing officers. […]
This is pretty disturbing. Any iPhone app with camera permission can secretly record you… Google engineer Felix Krause has detailed an alarming privacy setting in Apple’s iOS that enables iPhone apps with camera permission to surreptitiously take photos and videos of you – without your knowledge. Clarification: Krause has since contacted TNW to clarify that […]
Uber seems to care about its users privacy. Uber is pulling a heavily criticized feature from its app that allowed it to track riders for up to five minutes after a trip, in a fresh effort to fix its poor reputation for respecting customers’ privacy. The change, which restores users’ ability to share location data […]
This is a new report by Pen Test Partners about who is tracking your run through applications, smart devices and services. Plenty of security vulnerabilities have been found in fitness tracking devices, but we wanted to have a look at the mobile apps that are used for run and bike tracking. Strap your phone to […]
Spyware has been spotted targeting the phones of journalists, lawyers and television personalities. The Canada-based Citizen Lab and a number of Mexican NGOs identified the spyware’s activities in a recent report. The report uncovers the targeting of 10 Mexican citizens, including journalists, human rights lawyers and public health officials by malware, suspected to be Pegasus […]
VISITING the homes of poor Africans who want to borrow money helps Finca International, an American microfinance firm, weed out likely deadbeats. If an applicant has an indoor toilet, or household gifts from a relative working abroad, that is a good sign. Interviewing neighbours also helps, says Mike Gama-Lobo, who looks after Finca’s operations in […]
Learn about three famous gadgets that are always listening you and how to stop them. Imagine driving down a dark, deserted road when your tire blows out. There’s no one around, but, thankfully, you’re not alone. “Hey, Siri. Call roadside assistance.” A second later, you get a response in a warm and comforting voice, “Calling […]
RingGo Car parking app data breach. The app shared 2000 customers’ private details after company suffers glitch Thousands of users of a parking app may have had their personal details shared with other customers. Around 2,000 customers of the parking app RingGo were presented with other people’s details when they logged into the service. Many […]
WebSites Found collecting data from online forms even before you click submit. During an investigation, Gizmodo has discovered that code from NaviStone used by hundreds of websites, invisibly grabs each piece of information as you fill it out in a web form before you could hit ‘Send’ or ‘Submit.’ NaviStone is an Ohio-based startup that […]
Sensitive personal data exposed accidentally relating to almost 200 million US citizens by a marketing firm contracted by the Republican National Committee. The 1.1 terabytes of data includes birthdates, home addresses, telephone numbers and political views of nearly 62% of the entire US population. The data was available on a publicly accessible Amazon cloud server. […]
Netskope Cloud Report: Data loss prevention policy violations in collaboration services like Slack or HipChat are rising. This is according to new Netskope Cloud Report, which also adds that cloud services are generally underprepared for the upcoming GDPR regulation. Just Slack and HipChat are accounting for almost 10 per cent of all violations in the […]
Hackers publish private photos from cosmetic surgery clinic Hackers have published more than 25,000 private photos, including nude pictures, and other personal data from patients of a Lithuanian cosmetic surgery clinic, police say. The images were made public on Tuesday by a hacking group calling themselves “Tsar Team”, which broke into the servers of the […]
An article that presents the idea of beacon tracking and address the danger of processing voice data by hundred of apps. There are plenty of privacy-invading marketing ploys to worry about in life. Some examples are in your face, some are more subtle. And a relatively new kind manages to be outright invisible. In the most […]
